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San Francisco Eyes Rooftop Pickleball Courts: SFMTA considers turning parking garages into pickleball courts to boost revenue amid budget shortfalls.

York has reduced its order of parking kiosks from a Canadian manufacturer due to potential tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.

East Palo Alto City Council passed its Residential Permit Parking Program Ordinance, to create timed parking zones.

Los Angeles expected to spend $65 million more on parking than it takes in from fines.

The bipartisan-supported bill aims to remove parking minimum requirements and toxic pavement sealants while updating guidance on how to manage run-off and floodplains.

Denver wants to repeal parking mandates citywide. This will help the city fight the housing crisis by reducing the costs and regulatory hurdles of development.

Building more parking, like widening highways, just encourages more use of cars, adding to the problem.

70 years before congestion pricing landed in New York City, Lewis Mumford sounded the alarm on letting automobiles run amok in America’s downtowns.

This article also appears in Streetsblog Chicago cofounder Steven Vance’s personal blog Steven Can Plan. He also runs the local development data website Chicago Cityscape. The Chicago zoning code requires nearly every development, new or renovated, to provide on-site car parking. The code also provides relief from that requirement, most often in the form of […]

The Riverkeeper says the state’s fast growth may create economic opportunities, but that it also strains the state’s infrastructure, natural resources, and environment.

The ‘City of Yes’ plan is already having an impact. The changes to the city’s landscape will mostly be subtle — on purpose.

The Dallas City Plan Commission got to work fleshing out a parking reform proposal while other officials passed a resolution supporting DART.

A flexible zoning system could be the model for the Government’s planning reform. The American city of Minneapolis shows how.

In the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, sustainable mobility is making strides. The city has been implementing more shared bikes, safer bike lanes, and improved pedestrian pathways alongside a new bus rapid transit (BRT) line. But another key component of the area’s transformation is lesser known: better parking management and parking reform. Our streets are critical

Municipalities in California, Colorado and Washington are working toward a deeper understanding of what goes on at their curbs, to solve persistent problems related to parking, congestion and deliveries.

Betsy Larson wants to live in a more walkable neighborhood, with streetlights illuminating bustling roadways in front of thriving local businesses.  She believes a new zoning tool proposed by Tucson’s planning commission could help make this a reality by offering developers the option to build higher, denser and more accessible city spaces.  Larson is the […]

The Missoula City Council on Monday night extended an emergency ordinance adopted in 2023 to ensure the city remains in compliance with state law until it's able to fully reform its zoning and development codes.

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Across North America, parking mandates harm businesses, residents and cities. Fortunately, a rapidly growing number of cities are questioning these requirements, inching toward reforming or even repealing them altogether. Here are some of the communities that are rethinking their approaches.

In New York and other cities where congestion pricing policies, bike infrastructure projects, and car bans have been put in place, cyclists are finding the streets more welcoming.

State lawmakers want to install cameras that automatically ticket people who break parking rules.

The Finley Street Cottages project in Atlanta, Georgia, shows how parking mandates can prevent desperately needed development — and how removing those mandates makes housing more attainable and affordable.

By Zak Yudhishthu, a housing and urban policy researcher based in Chicago As Evanston has considered changing its zoning code to allow higher densities of

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On January 13, 2025, the city council of Bellingham, Washington, eliminated parking mandates citywide. This decision is a key step in reducing barriers to housing development.

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